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...Judicial Board may have already lostits chance to discuss a major issue involvingpolitical protest. Spence has asked the Ad Board, notthe new body, to investigate the blockade twoweeks ago by members of the Southern AfricaSolidarity Committee. In doing so Spence said hehoped the Ad Board would review and develop aconsensus condemning blockades as a form ofprotest
...Cambridge school committee members focus their efforts on a rational review of policy issues. They resist the temptation to get bogged down in personalities-or the quick-fix school reform proposals trumpeted by ambitious states and national politicians," continues the report by the NEA, which is the nation's largest teachers' union...
Elman started telling his story in 1983 for a Columbia University oral history project, and his disclosures were published in February's Harvard Law Review, from where they jumped last week to the front page of the New York Times. In his interview, Elman recalls that for years Frankfurter telephoned him almost every Sunday night at home. In some of their talks in 1952, the judge discussed the fact that several Justices feared that if they ordered immediate school integration, the result would be virtual warfare across the South. Frankfurter wanted "more than anything else" for the court to decide...
Having raised the specter of a foreign economic threat to U.S. security, however, Commerce Secretary Baldrige seemed reluctant to let the issue die down. Last week he called for a top-level Government review to decide on exceptions, where the "national interest is at stake," to a stated policy of unfettered foreign investment in U.S. business. The U.S. Senate also kept the microchip issue simmering. In a 93-to-0 vote, members passed a nonbinding resolution that urged U.S. retaliation against alleged Japanese violations of a 1986 agreement with Washington that was supposed to end unfair trade practices...
...hardly mattered. There were hundreds of other notables to engage the philosopher's attention. Although he was at constant odds with colleagues like Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy and Dwight Macdonald, Hook was associated with the opinion molders of the Partisan Review, perhaps the closest thing to the claustrophobic Bloomsbury set the U.S. has ever produced. They wrangled over every aspect of politics and culture, and as the memoirs of the survivors show, after a half-century, sentiments have still not cooled. Particularly Hook's, who now regards the Partisans as the "Radical Comedians" because "there was something truly comic about...